My name is Jim Hendrickson and I have list of things I am trying to collect and it must be complete,my friends have called me a completeist(my spelling)for many years and this is my blog. I cover just about everything, so you never know what will show up here. I have very eclectic taste ranging from pop music to history to horse racing and many more things that catch my interest. Come along and see whats out there.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Today is the birthday of my friend and podcaster elite Buck Benny! Lets all head over to his site, Buck Benny Podcast,, and follow his podcast and send a little donation his way to make it a great birthday.

Today I would like to highlight a new favorite of mine that Buck helped me get hooked on...Suspense!

I had been listening to Suspense since my friend Rick recommended it but I just wasn't all that into it, but then Buck started posted episodes and giving a little podcast for them now and again and lo and behold now I am addicted to them have been downloading and listening to them every day. So thanks to Rick and Buck for getting me hooked on Suspense.

Here from the Ray Bradbury life celebration is the Suspense episode from November 25th 1948,The Screaming Woman

Here is the version from Ray Bradbury Theater aired February 22nd 1986 (Episode 5)

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Here we present from our good friend Buck Benny and his tremendous OTR podcast Gunsmoke Season 1,
July 5th 1952 and the episode is "Never Pester Chester".
When I first heard this episode a few years ago it really set up the friendship between Marshall Matt Dillon and Chester Proudfoot...this was a serious show but this type of friendship was revisited on television in the Andy Griffith Show. The friendship of Andy and Barney is done in comedic style but this episode of Gunsmoke from the radio version really shows us how deep the feeling run for Marshall Dillon towards Chester and Andy feels just the same about his deputy.

A special bonus to this weeks podcast is the mention of this little ol blog. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear about something I put together just for me and my friends and has become such a popular place for the OTR fans and fans of Buck Benny. I can't thank Buck enough for his emails and his patience to answer my questions about OTR and Jack Benny especially. Buck is a great guy and friend and I love to email with him and talk about Jack Benny, Gunsmoke, Phil Harris, Suspense, X Minus One, Great Gildersleeve, etc., He puts it all out there in a chronological order (which for me is the only way to listen!) so you have and idea of how these shows all sounded in context with each other and the year of broadcast.

Stop over to follow him and listen to the best of the Golden Age of Radio.

This episode is from Season 3 of the tv series which we are following from the beginning here at the Completeist. This aired on CBS November 16th 1957

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Its been a rough year as we also lost James Arness, Marshall Matt Dillon and with Mr. Griffith were the backbone of CBS television in the 1960s.

Andy Griffith taught a lot boys about life and how to be a good dad without being mean. There are life lessons in every episode of the Andy Griffith Show. He showed how to be a good friend and treat everyone with respect and dignity in everything we do. He will be missed but thankfully we have decades of his tremendous work to show coming generations.

Of course I LOVE the Andy Griffith Show but I can remember my dad playing the "What it Was, Was Football"for me and that had me hooked on Andy and that led me to watching his show every chance I got.

Then in the mid 80s with cable coming into our home I discovered, thanks to WTBS, the movie "No Time for Sergeants" and I laughed like a nut the whole movie.

All in all Andy Griffith has been a big influence in my life and I knew I could always put in a tape and later DVD of any black and white episode with my friends and we could all enjoy the fun.
I have had the pleasure of introducing my girls to his show and they can almost recite it just as much as I can and that makes me proud as a peacock!